Not merely to be
feasting
with delight
Man's senses, I refuse; but even his heart
I will not serve.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Such dimity convictions,
A horror so refined
Of
freckled
human nature,
Of Deity ashamed, --
It's such a common glory,
A fisherman's degree!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Ever alert
More evil from the wretched to avert,
Those hapless ones who 'neath Heaven's vault at night
Raise
suppliant
hands.
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Hugo - Poems |
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All stood
together
on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fix'd on me their stony eyes
That in the moon did glitter.
| Guess: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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His
conversation and letters
displayed
the amiableness of his sincere
character.
| Guess: |
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Petrarch |
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With not even one blow
landing?
| Guess: |
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Villon |
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How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,
In the
distraction
of this madding fever!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The Project
Gutenberg
eBook of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience,
by William Blake
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Extending
forward,
parallel
with the proboscis, and on each side of it, was a
gigantic staff, thirty or forty feet in length, formed seemingly of pure
crystal and in shape a perfect prism,--it reflected in the most gorgeous
manner the rays of the declining sun.
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Poe - 5 |
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--2)
_elevated
sea-shore_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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Nivesque
primas liliumque non tactum.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Always
obedient
to your Grace's will,
I come to know your pleasure.
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Shakespeare |
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Men, women, rich and poor, in the cool hours,
Shuffled their sandals o'er the pavement white,
Companion'd or alone; while many a light
Flared, here and there, from wealthy festivals,
And threw their moving shadows on the walls,
Or found them cluster'd in the
corniced
shade
Of some arch'd temple door, or dusky colonnade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The bravest of the host,
Surrendering the last,
Nor even of defeat aware
When
cancelled
by the frost.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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They cannot take us any more, --
Dungeons may call, and guns implore;
Unmeaning now, to me,
As laughter was an hour ago,
Or laces, or a
travelling
show,
Or who died yesterday!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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That perhaps
He is a deacon run away from Moscow,
In his own
district
a notorious rogue.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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XXVI
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius scorches with his light,
Or where the
northerlies
blow cold forever.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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* * *
The little needle always knows the North,
The little bird
remembereth
his note,
And this wise Seer within me never errs.
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Emerson - Poems |
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deathless flame Gave thee thine aureole, what Lord thy
strength?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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How does Una repay their
kindness?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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rat hym at ones,
al graye;
[L] He
blenched
a3ayn bilyue,
1716 & stifly start onstray,
With alle ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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" _
And that was all the
farewell
when I parted from my dear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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or with what is peculiar to the women, those precious
stones, for the
purchase
of which our corn is carried into foreign and
hostile nations.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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How easy every labour it
pursues!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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One must love something in this world of ours, mistress,
They who love nothing live, in their wretchedness,
Like the Scythians did, and they would spend their life
Without tasting the sweetness of the
sweetest
joy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Coleridge, in a famous estimate put twenty years for the
shortest
period
in which an epic could be composed; and of this, ten years were to be
for preparation.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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]
[Footnote E: In January 1801 Charles Lamb thus wrote to Wordsworth of
his 'Old
Cumberland
Beggar':
"It appears to me a fault that the instructions conveyed in it are too
direct, and like a lecture: they don't slide into the mind of the
reader while he is imagining no such matter,"
At the same time he refers to
"the delicate and curious feeling in the wish of the Beggar that he
may have about him the melody of birds, although he hears them not.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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In these volumes grand
Whose pictures please you--while I
trembling
stand
To see their big leaves tattered by your hand--
Are noble lines; but nothing half your worth,
When all your tiny frame rustles with mirth
To welcome me.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
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Rilke - Poems |
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In this cool wonder
Endymion
sat down, and 'gan to ponder
On all his life: his youth, up to the day 890
When 'mid acclaim, and feasts, and garlands gay,
He stept upon his shepherd throne: the look
Of his white palace in wild forest nook,
And all the revels he had lorded there:
Each tender maiden whom he once thought fair,
With every friend and fellow-woodlander--
Pass'd like a dream before him.
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Keats |
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Se
violenza
e quando quel che pate
niente conferisce a quel che sforza,
non fuor quest' alme per essa scusate:
che volonta, se non vuol, non s'ammorza,
ma fa come natura face in foco,
se mille volte violenza il torza.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Note: The last line is quoted by Eliot, in French, in The Wasteland (with
reference
to the Fisher King) as is the second line of De Nerval's El Desdichado.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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As strange a
question
as
this was, I hesitated not a moment to tell him 'Stepney'; the parish in
which I live when in London.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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inges han ben {and} ben
[Sidenote: But as it cannot stop or abide it pursues its course
through infinite time, and by gliding along it continues its
duration, the plenitude of which it could not comprehend, by
abiding in a
permanent
state.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which
kindness
rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I have come from the spring-woods,
From the fragrant solitudes;--
Listen what the poplar-tree
And
murmuring
waters counselled me.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Maisie
was not in sympathy that day, and she waited
impatiently
for the end of
the work.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Your
treatment
of guests allows a certain laxness, our offices allow us to have contact.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And we, that now make merry in the Room
They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom,
Ourselves
must we beneath the Couch of Earth
Descend--ourselves to make a Couch--for whom?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Elle marche en deesse et repose en sultane;
Elle a dans le plaisir la foi mahometane,
Et dans ses bras ouverts que
remplissent
ses seins,
Elle appelle des yeux la race des humains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Dicky could not
subscribe to any amusement, so he found no
amusement
except the pleasure
of turning over his Bank-book and reading what it said about "loans
on approved security.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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The race is ripened for the
judgment
day:
So I, for the last time, climb the witch-mountain, thinking,
And, as my cask runs thick, I say,
The world, too, on its lees is sinking.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The moon is distant from the sea,
And yet with amber hands
She leads him, docile as a boy,
Along
appointed
sands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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See, fierce Belinda on the Baron flies, 75
With more than usual
lightning
in her eyes:
Nor fear'd the Chief th' unequal fight to try,
Who sought no more than on his foe to die.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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within our annals past, those hours
That burned as wounds, now fade in silent breath,
For all the things we ever
christened
flowers
Regather round the well of Death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"
The Two Hermits
Upon a lonely mountain, there lived two hermits who
worshipped
God
and loved one another.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE
THY shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea,
Now steals along upon the Moon's meek shine
In even
monochrome
and curving line
Of imperturbable serenity.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But let us haste--Night rolls the hours away,
The
reddening
orient shows the coming day,
The stars shine fainter on the ethereal plains,
And of night's empire but a third remains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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org
While we cannot and do not solicit
contributions
from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"You, my lord, who are at the head of the council, and who govern your
republic, ought to recollect that the glory or the shame of these events
will fall
principally
on you.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Love, now an
universal
birth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Bromley,
Whose ways were not
cheerful
or comely;
He sate in the dust, eating spiders and crust,
That unpleasing old person of Bromley.
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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[Note 20: The strong influence
exercised
by Byron's genius on the
imagination of Pushkin is well known.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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For he has a pall, this
wretched
man,
Such as few men can claim:
Deep down below a prison-yard,
Naked for greater shame,
He lies, with fetters on each foot,
Wrapt in a sheet of flame!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Souls tremble at the silent spectre sight,
As if in this
mysterious
cavalcade
They saw the weird and mystic halt was made
Of them who at the coming dawn of day
Would fade, and from their vision pass away.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hugo - Poems |
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How do you find the dainty
creatures?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
|
Negligent speech doth not only discredit the person of the
speaker, but it
discrediteth
the opinion of his reason and judgment; it
discrediteth the force and uniformity of the matter and substance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Then, Daphnis, to the cooling streams were none
That drove the
pastured
oxen, then no beast
Drank of the river, or would the grass-blade touch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Grain de musc qui gis, invisible,
Au fond de mon
eternite!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
|
As to the objections which Hayward and some of his
reviewers
have
instituted in advance against the possibility of a good and faithful
metrical translation of a poem like Faust, they seem to the present
translator full of paradox and sophistry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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There, in the
windless
night-time,
The wanderer, marvelling why,
Halts on the bridge to hearken
How soft the poplars sigh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A barrel-organ
Rasped a
mournful
measure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
' 50
I've allus foun' 'em, I allow, sence then
About ez good for talkin' tu ez men;
They'll take edvice, like other folks, to keep,
(To use it 'ould be holdin' on 't tu cheap,)
They listen wal, don' kick up when you scold 'em,
An' ef they've tongues, hev sense enough to hold 'em;
Though th' ain't no denger we shall lose the breed,
I gin'lly keep a score or so for seed,
An' when my
sappiness
gits spry in spring,
So's't my tongue itches to run on full swing, 60
I fin' 'em ready-planted in March-meetin',
Warm ez a lyceum-audience in their greetin',
An' pleased to hear my spoutin' frum the fence,--
Comin', ez 't doos, entirely free 'f expense.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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O
glucklich
der, den Ihr belehrt!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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My heart that sometimes at night tries to know itself,
Or with which last word to name you the most tender
Exults in that which merely whispered sister
Were it not, such short tresses so great a treasure,
That you teach me quite another sweetness,
Soft through the kiss
murmured
only in your hair.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
|
Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
sent to the Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation at the
address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
Bacchus on the wing,
A
conquering!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
"Blood
and thunder, Sir Pathrick, mavourneen," thinks I to mesilf, "fait it's
jist the mother's son of you, and nobody else at all at all, that's the
handsomest and the fortunittest young bog-throtter that ever cum'd out
of
Connaught!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Tradition relates, that armies beginning to give way have been rallied by the females, through the earnestness of their supplications, the interposition of their bodies, 54 and the pictures they have drawn of impending slavery, 55 a calamity which these people bear with more
impatience
for their women than themselves; so that those states who have been obliged to give among their hostages the daughters of noble families, are the most effectually bound to fidelity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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Was himself _one who knew_,
How comes it that he wrote a book
Of five
thousand
words?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
|
; heht þā se
hearda
Hrunting
beran, _to bring Hrunting_, 1808; up beran, 1921; in beran,
2153; pret.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Adde nunc vires viribus,
Dulce balneum suavibus,
Unguentatum
odoribus!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
e
emperour
al-so,
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
|
O'er the sea,
And from the
mountains
where I now respire,
Fain would I waft such blessing upon thee,
As, with a sigh, I deem thou mightst have been to me!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
_insert_
With _before_ Your;
Gg.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
The soldyerres
followed
wythe a myghtie crie,
Cryes, yatte welle myghte the stouteste hartes affraie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
|
I know they think me mad, for all night long
I haunt the sea-marge,
thinking
I may find
Some day the herb he offered unto me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
The
listening
soul is full of dreams
That shape the wondrous-varying themes
As cries of men or plash of streams.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
I was no part of all the
troubled
crowd
That moved beneath the palace windows here,
And yet sometimes a knight in shining steel
Would pass and catch the gleaming of my hair,
And wave a mailed hand and smile at me,
Whereat I made no sign and turned away,
Affrighted and yet glad and full of dreams.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Still as one brood, and as another rose,
These natural love maintained,
habitual
those.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Aye, 'bove the withering of old-lipp'd Fate
A thousand Powers keep religious state, 30
In water, fiery realm, and airy bourne;
And, silent as a
consecrated
urn,
Hold sphery sessions for a season due.
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Keats |
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VI
Calais, in song where word and tone keep tryst Behold my heart, and hear mine
hardihood
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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at a selly in si3t summe men hit holden,
& an
outtrage
awenture of Arthure3 wondere3;
[D] If 3e wyl lysten ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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As hail
rebounds
from a roof of slate,
Rebounds our heavier hail
From each iron scale
Of the monster's hide.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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TO DIANEME
Give me one kiss,
And no more:
If so be, this
Makes you poor
To enrich you,
I'll restore
For that one, two-
Thousand
score.
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Robert Herrick |
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Heroes so many
ne'er met I as
strangers
of mood so strong.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Yet art thou mine, because thou knowest well
Thou
disobeyest
me.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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'Tis said, a child was in her womb,
As now to any eye was plain;
She was with child, and she was mad,
Yet often she was sober sad
From her
exceeding
pain.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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e pore man his bone; 291
he
grantede
him to clo?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Greece is no lightsome land of social mirth:
But he whom Sadness
sootheth
may abide,
And scarce regret the region of his birth,
When wandering slow by Delphi's sacred side,
Or gazing o'er the plains where Greek and Persian died.
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Byron |
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He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,
And looked at me vaguely, as
drinking
cattle do,
And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,
And stooped and drank a little more,
Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earth
On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And I thanked God, in my fever and pain,
That those shadows on the
midnight
plain
Were gone, and could not come again!
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Longfellow |
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Again, the forward power
Of scent in dogs doth lead the hunter on
Whithersoever
the splay-foot of wild beast
Hath hastened its career; and the white goose,
The saviour of the Roman citadel,
Forescents afar the odour of mankind.
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Lucretius |
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For just as children tremble and fear all
In the viewless dark, so even we at times
Dread in the light so many things that be
No whit more
fearsome
than what children feign,
Shuddering, will be upon them in the dark.
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Lucretius |
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The blest to-day is as
completely
so,
As who began a thousand years ago.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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most
reverend
head, to whom I owe
All that I am in arts, all that I know--
How nothing's that!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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